TF, elimination diet and Thanksgiving, Oh my!

[nicolelynn]

So after much avoiding it I started an elimination diet today. Currently I am headachy from caffeine withdrawl day 1.

I just found a naturopath here and have been consulting with her to get my health in order before TTCing in 6 months-1yr. She recommend a nutritional panel, food sensitivity test and heavy metals test but due to budget reasons I can only afford one now. I had decided to do the food sensitivity since I had had digestive issues for several months and that is my number one concern. I had dreaded doing an elimination diet and wanted the easy way out of a lab test. But she convinced me to do an elimination diet and get the nutritional panel instead. So here I am.

So, besides greatly missing coffee, dairy and eggs...now I have to TF it AND deal with the holidays coming up!

Anybody else doing an elimination diet now around the holidays?

My plan is to make a few sides and a dessert to take to the family feast that I can eat, and to share with others. I'm thinking mashed sweet potatoes with coconut milk, cinnamon and honey... sweet and sour green beans with turkey bacon, almonds and acv-rapadura. Any recipes for wheat, corn, dairy and egg free stuffing...maybe wild rice and turkey sausage?
What for dessert? Any way of doing pumpkin pie with coconut milk without eggs...and w/o some scary egg replacer? I'm thinking a chilled pumpkin pie made with coconut cream, which becomes very solid when chilled...on an almond flour crust.

Then I'll be back here in a few weeks asking for wheat/egg/dairy free TF cookie ideas for my annual cookie exchange day hehe.

[ChristieB]

nak, so no recipes now. If you want any, let me know.

Difficult timing, I know. But you can do it! We avoid everything you listed (except for eggs), and then some, on a regular basis. But my ds will tell you we FEAST!

I think for the pumpkin pie I would use gelatin as a replacement for the eggs. And coconut milk works fine in the pie.

Or, you could make an apple crisp. I make a wonderful crisp with coconut flour and a few other things. I usually add cranberries in with the apples. It's so good!! You could even make yourself some coconut milk ice cream to go with it.

We skipped the stuffing last year and probably will this year (we're grain-free, which makes it really hard, and more work than it's worth). But your stuffing idea sounds good! I love wild rice. A friend of ours once made a dressing to fit everyone's food sensitivities, and there were a lot of them (this was before we were grain-free). It was rice with dried fruit and nuts. I don't remember now if there was anything else. I have the recipe somewhere. But there are quite few options, really.

The green beans sound yummy! So do the sweet potatoes. Last year we tried something different (more work than your mashed sweet potatoes, though!). I adapted a Fine Cooking recipe for a sweet potato and carmelized onion gratin. I topped it with pecans. I wasn't going to try it, but ds saw it in the magazine, and insisted we try it. He loved it! We all did.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving feast!! You really will enjoy it. I think your plan is a good one. Make sure to take some snacks for yourself, too. Toasted pumpkin seeds would be yummy.